2011 Offer of a W3-Professorship for Food Sensory Sciences,
University Hohenheim
2011 Offer of a W2-Professorship for Food Chemistry, University
Wuppertal
2011 Offer of a W2-Professorship for Aroma Research, University
Erlangen-Nürnberg
2012 Appointment for W2-Profesorship for Aroma Research, University
Erlangen-Nürnberg

Extra activities and commissions of trust

Service as Member of the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Sciences,
University of Erlangen, since 2017
Service as Chair and Member of the Independent Advisory Board of the
European Commission on Characterizing Flavours in Tobacco Products
since 2017
Service as Ombudswoman for Good Scientific Practice at Fraunhofer
IVV since October 2016
Service as member of DFG review board, academic subject area: Food
Chemistry, since Aprill 2016
Spokesperson of the DFG review board 305 Biological Chemistry and
FoodChemistry, since April 2016
Member of the Editorial Board of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158) since 2015
Member of the Editorial Board of Food Chemistry (specialty section
of Frontiers in Chemistry and Frontiers in Nutrition) since 2015
Member of the Commission for Equal Opportunities at the University
of Erlangen, since 2015, and Member of the Diversity Audit
Commission at the University of Erlangen, since 2016

Memberships in scientific organizations/boards

Cofunder and Member of the Steering Board of the Campus of the
Senses Erlangen initiative, since 2017
Scientific member of the Fraunhofer Vintage Class programme 2007 -
2012, since 2012 alumna
AcademiaNet member
GDCh (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker) member
AChemS (Association for Chemoreception Sciences) member
ACS (American Chemical Society) member
ECRO (European Chemoreceptionn Research Organisation) member
Awardee of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
COST Action 921 "Food Matrices: Structural Organisation and Impact
on Flavour Release and Perception": membership in the management
committee and working group leader

Joseph-Schormüller Internship for the research stay
Sept./Oct. 2002 in the research group of Prof. P.
Pelosi,Dipartimento di Chimica e Biotecnologie Agrarie,
University of Pisa, Italy
Research topic: Lipocalines as „odorant binding proteins“

1997

Research internship in the frame of a "Short Term Scientific
Mission, COST 96" for the research stay March/April 1997 in
the research group of Prof. A. Taylor, University of
Nottingham, England
Research topic: In vivo measurements of volatile release from
oranges

DFG Grants

Project grant BU 1351/20-1

Project grant BU 1351/17-1

Grant for instrumentation INST 90/979-1 FUGG

Project grant BU 1351/15-1 and 15-2

Research stipend grant BU 1351/1-1 und BU
1351/1-2

DFG grant BU1351/1-3 for patent application

Research topics

Product-oriented research

Analysis of aroma and non-food smell,
characterization of odorants, precursor studies, development of
optimization strategies